I CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 995 



On the Tea lliores frequent, often adhering to 

 Fucufes. 



Its Lifual length is about four or five inches ; its 

 color red, fometimes tawny or fandy. 



The threads are about the fize of fevving filk, 

 clofely jointed, and much branched ; the 

 branches divided and fubdivided without order. 

 The joints are a little knotted or flightly pro- 

 tuberant, fhorc and numerous ; the fepta con- 

 tra6led, and of a deeper red. 



The fru6lifications are very minute red tubercles, 

 growing fingle on the fides of the branches ; 

 thofe near the fummits feflile, the inferior ones 

 often pedunculated, and all generally fubtended 

 by a lateral fpinule. 



Thefe tubercles are probably male-fru6tifications; 

 for in Ibme fpecimens, with the aid of a micro- 

 fcope, we difcovered, befides thefe tubercles, 

 many fmall red feeds imbedded in the fubflance 

 of the threads, particularly in the very joints or 

 fepia ; fo that this plant may be confidered as 

 monoecious. 



am^na p. There is a variety of this with finer threads ; the 

 joints hardly protuberant or fcarcely knotted. 

 Some confider this as a difiinft fpecies, but the 

 fruftifications are fimilar to thofe of the fore- 

 going. 



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